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A Friend
I sat down at the pier in Balamb, fishing. I had been there for an hour and was getting frustrated. A quick look over to Raijin confirmed that he has caught yet another fish and is once again celebrating.
My frustration breaks and I shoot up, throwing my rod to the ground. "Goddamit!" I yell.
Fujin notices this through Raijin's celebrating and kicks him into the water. I burst out laughing despite my frustration.
His head bursts out of the water, sputtering. He clings onto the side of the pier and a shadow covers the area. I look up and see Balamb Garden flying overhead.
'Good work Squall,' I think.
Despite what everyone believes, I consider Squall a friend. Whatever I've dont to him, I was trying to help him. Even the scar I gave him.
Heck, he gave the reason himself. "Thanks to you, I'm ready for anything. Even if they fight dirty like you," Squall had said in out field test at Dollet. He was a good fighter, yes. But he hadn't had much experience fighting anything human that is willing to break the rules.
I had that talk about our dreams in Dollet. I had to try and get him to loosen up a bit somehow. He didn't let anyone inside his shell. Those insults I sling at him. He has to get angry sometime, I may have never gotten him angry, but I tried. I was worries about him snapping. He never did though, good thing. However, him not having any anger also meant he had a harder time reaching his limit. It took him so much longer than everyone else to learn his limit. He had one less emotion to use. Hell, he almost wasn't allowed to go to Dollet. He had discovered his actual limit break after I gave him that scar. He had taken the written test the day before, but the instructors don't let cadets without limits go into the field exam.
That was the only time I saw him angry since he was 13. And that anger let him break through the block on his limit.
If he had stayed like he had when he was 13, he may have been a SeeD at 15 or so. I always picked fights with him. They toughened him up. He would take hits and deal them right back. Then Quistis usually showed up and broke our fights up.
Through my attempts to help him become a better soldier, I suppose I pushed him away even more. I had honestly tried to help them at Timber, when I took the President hostage. I was so outraged that three newbie cadets, one of them being my friend, were sent to a mission that would involve the kidnapping of such an important political figure. Then I met Matron again.
The fact that it was Matron surprised me, I hadn't used GFs as much as Squall and the others had, so I still remembered her a bit. That shock of seeing her as the Sorceress had allowed her to take control of my mind. After that I don't remember much more than what the members of my posse had told me. My first memories coming out of that nightmare would be waking up in Esthar, with Fujin and Raijin watching over me.
I'm going back to Balamb Garden when they land it again. I'll try and explain what happened and hope they'll be willing to give me a second chance there. Hopefully.
A Friend
I sat down at the pier in Balamb, fishing. I had been there for an hour and was getting frustrated. A quick look over to Raijin confirmed that he has caught yet another fish and is once again celebrating.
My frustration breaks and I shoot up, throwing my rod to the ground. "Goddamit!" I yell.
Fujin notices this through Raijin's celebrating and kicks him into the water. I burst out laughing despite my frustration.
His head bursts out of the water, sputtering. He clings onto the side of the pier and a shadow covers the area. I look up and see Balamb Garden flying overhead.
'Good work Squall,' I think.
Despite what everyone believes, I consider Squall a friend. Whatever I've dont to him, I was trying to help him. Even the scar I gave him.
Heck, he gave the reason himself. "Thanks to you, I'm ready for anything. Even if they fight dirty like you," Squall had said in out field test at Dollet. He was a good fighter, yes. But he hadn't had much experience fighting anything human that is willing to break the rules.
I had that talk about our dreams in Dollet. I had to try and get him to loosen up a bit somehow. He didn't let anyone inside his shell. Those insults I sling at him. He has to get angry sometime, I may have never gotten him angry, but I tried. I was worries about him snapping. He never did though, good thing. However, him not having any anger also meant he had a harder time reaching his limit. It took him so much longer than everyone else to learn his limit. He had one less emotion to use. Hell, he almost wasn't allowed to go to Dollet. He had discovered his actual limit break after I gave him that scar. He had taken the written test the day before, but the instructors don't let cadets without limits go into the field exam.
That was the only time I saw him angry since he was 13. And that anger let him break through the block on his limit.
If he had stayed like he had when he was 13, he may have been a SeeD at 15 or so. I always picked fights with him. They toughened him up. He would take hits and deal them right back. Then Quistis usually showed up and broke our fights up.
Through my attempts to help him become a better soldier, I suppose I pushed him away even more. I had honestly tried to help them at Timber, when I took the President hostage. I was so outraged that three newbie cadets, one of them being my friend, were sent to a mission that would involve the kidnapping of such an important political figure. Then I met Matron again.
The fact that it was Matron surprised me, I hadn't used GFs as much as Squall and the others had, so I still remembered her a bit. That shock of seeing her as the Sorceress had allowed her to take control of my mind. After that I don't remember much more than what the members of my posse had told me. My first memories coming out of that nightmare would be waking up in Esthar, with Fujin and Raijin watching over me.
I'm going back to Balamb Garden when they land it again. I'll try and explain what happened and hope they'll be willing to give me a second chance there. Hopefully.